Guidance Search
The Department of Labor provides this guidance search tool as a single, searchable location where users may search for guidance issued by any of the Department’s agencies, including significant guidance documents under Executive Order 12866. Individual guidance documents are maintained on the various agency websites, and if you know what agency you are looking for, you may also find guidance by navigating directly to that agency’s website. The Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register, which are not maintained by the Department, also include some of the Department’s interpretations of law and similar material.
OMB’s Final Bulletin for Agency Good Guidance Practices establishes policies and procedures for the development, issuance, and use of significant guidance documents by Executive Branch departments, including requiring that agencies enable the public to request that significant guidance documents be created, reconsidered, modified or rescinded. To petition for a significant guidance document to be created, modified, reconsidered, or rescinded, email the Department of Labor. Petitions should identify the specific guidance document by name and include your reason(s) for the request.
On January 20, 2021, President Biden issued the “Executive Order on Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Federal Regulation.” In response, the Department issued a final rule January 27, 2021 to rescind its August 28, 2020 rule on guidance documents.
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This letter provides guidance on siblings using FMLA leave, as in loco parentis, and the need to provide parental care for a son or daughter 18 years or older.
TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT GUIDANCE LETTER No. 09-24 informs the state and local workforce development system of the policies and priorities that govern the award and use of National Dislocated Worker Grant (DWG) funds, pursuant to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), Title I, Section 170.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 06-25 transmits the subject computation for State Workforce Agency usage in computing minimum weekly DUA amounts for all major disasters declared from January 1 – March 31, 2025 (second quarter of Fiscal Year (FY) 2025).
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 05-25 ensures State Workforce Agencies (SWAs) are aware of the Federal military retired pay annual COLA provided by the Department of Defense.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 04-25 ensures that states are aware that the social security survivors and old age retirement annuities and the Federal civilian pensions annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increased for calendar year (CY) 2025, and to provide the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) COLA information.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 08-24 conveys the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 initial funding allotments for WOTC application requirements for State Workforce Agencies (SWA), based on funding appropriated through a continuing resolution through December 20, 2024.
Training Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 07-24 announces the availability of up to $925,200 for National Farmworker Jobs Program (NFJP) Youth Grants.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 03-25 advises states that the deadline for accepting DUA applications has changed from 30 days to 60 days, for all disasters declared after March 23, 2024.
Training and Employment Guidance Letter (TEGL) No. 06-24 informs the public workforce system and other entities that receive federal financial assistance under Title I of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), as well as education and training programs and activities receiving Department of Labor (DOL) financial assistance on how to: (1) prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV), which can be a form of sex discrimination prohibited by nondiscrimination and equal opportunity laws applicable to the workforce development system, and (2) reduce barriers that GBV survivors face in seeking jobs and participating in covered programs and activities.
Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) No. 02-25 provides states with instructions for requesting continued workload-based administrative funding for CARES Act benefit programs. The programs covered under this Unemployment Insurance Program Letter (UIPL) include Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC), Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA), Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC), and Mixed Earners Unemployment Compensation (MEUC).
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